Zoographies

Author : Matthew Calarco
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231511575

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Zoographies by Matthew Calarco Pdf

Zoographies challenges the anthropocentrism of the Continental philosophical tradition and advances the position that, while some distinctions are valid, humans and animals are best viewed as part of an ontological whole. Matthew Calarco draws on ethological and evolutionary evidence and the work of Heidegger, who called for a radicalized responsibility toward all forms of life. He also turns to Levinas, who raised questions about the nature and scope of ethics; Agamben, who held the "anthropological machine" responsible for the horrors of the twentieth century; and Derrida, who initiated a nonanthropocentric ethics. Calarco concludes with a call for the abolition of classical versions of the human-animal distinction and asks that we devise new ways of thinking about and living with animals.

Author : Patricia Cox Miller
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780812295221

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In the Eye of the Animal by Patricia Cox Miller Pdf

Early Christian theology posited a strict division between animals and humans. Nevertheless, animal figures abound in early Christian literature and art—from Augustine's renowned "wonder at the agility of the mosquito on the wing," to vivid exegeses of the six days of creation detailed in Genesis—and when they appear, the distinctions between human and animal are often dissolved. How, asks Patricia Cox Miller, does one account for the stunning zoological imagination found in a wide variety of genres of ancient Christian texts? In the Eye of the Animal complicates the role of animals in early Christian thought by showing how textual and artistic images and interpretive procedures actually celebrated a continuum of human and animal life. Synthesizing early Christian studies, contemporary philosophy, animal studies, ethology, and modern poetry, Miller identifies two contradictory strands in early Christian thinking about animals. The dominant thread viewed the body and soul of the human being as dominical, or the crowning achievement of creation; animals, with their defective souls, related to humans only as reminders of the brutish physical form. However, the second strand relied upon the idea of a continuum of animal life, which enabled comparisons between animals and humans. This second tendency, explains Miller, arises particularly in early Christian literature in which ascetic identity, the body, and ethics intersect. She explores the tension between these modes by tracing the image of the animal in early Christian literature, from the ethical animal behavior on display in Basil of Caesarea's Hexaemeron and the anonymous Physiologus, to the role of animals in articulating erotic desire, and from the idyllic intimacy of monks and animals in literature of desert ascetism to early Christian art that envisions paradise through human-animal symbiosis.

Author : Sharon Patricia Holland
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478027065

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an other by Sharon Patricia Holland Pdf

In an other, Sharon Patricia Holland offers a new theorization of the human animal/divide by shifting focus from distinction toward relation in ways that acknowledge that humans are also animals. Holland centers ethical commitments over ontological concerns to spotlight those moments when Black people ethically relate with animals. Drawing on writers and thinkers ranging from Hortense Spillers, Sara Ahmed, Toni Morrison, and C. E. Morgan to Jane Bennett, Jacques Derrida, and Donna Haraway, Holland decenters the human in Black feminist thought to interrogate blackness, insurgence, flesh, and femaleness. She examines MOVE’s incarnation as an animal liberation group; uses sovereignty in Morrison’s A Mercy to understand blackness, indigeneity, and the animal; analyzes Charles Burnett’s films as commentaries on the place of animals in Black life; and shows how equestrian novels address Black and animal life in ways that rehearse the practices of the slavocracy. By focusing on doing rather than being, Holland demonstrates that Black life is not solely likened to animal life; it is relational and world-forming with animal lives.

Author : Bradford McCall
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725267657

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Evolution by Bradford McCall Pdf

Should we attempt to understand (macro-)evolutionary biology, in the twenty-first century, as secular or sacred? This book will attempt to answer this question by exploring the secular evolutionary worldview, the author’s view of kenotic-causation, Whitehead’s views on chance, Derrida’s views on non-human animals, a statement upon the God of chance and purpose, Augustine’s various theologies of creation, a decidedly non-dualistic (macro-)evolution, a provocative thesis regarding evolutionary Christology, the connection between kenosis and emergence, and an explication of both Anders Nygren and Thomas Jay Oord’s views of love in the contemporary environ. It also develops the author’s personal view regarding necessary, kenotically-donated, and self-giving love, and argues that kenosis and emergence can add to the discussion of understanding the theology-science-love symbiosis. It advocates and explicates herein a monistic process-based view of the overlapping relationship between theology and science.

Author : William Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : Domestic animals
ISBN : PRNC:32101067206126

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Zoography by William Wood Pdf

Author : William Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : Domestic animals
ISBN : OXFORD:600025374

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Zoography; Or, The Beauties of Nature Displayed. In Select Descriptions from the Animal, and Vegetable, with Additions from the Mineral Kingdom by William Wood Pdf

Author : Eduardo Mendieta
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438498102

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The Philosophical Animal by Eduardo Mendieta Pdf

Humans are animals who fictionalize other animals to asse their "humanness." We are philosophical animals who philosophize about our humanity by projecting images onto a mirror about other animals. Spanning literature, philosophy, and ethics, the thread uniting The Philosophical Animal is the bestiary and how it continues to inform our imaginings. Beginning with an exploration of animals and women in the literary work of Coetzee, famous for his book on the Lives of Animals, Eduardo Mendieta then dives into the genre of bestiaries in order to investigate the relation between humanity and animality. From there he approaches the works of Derrida and Habermas from the standpoint of genetic engineering and animal studies. While we have intensely modified many species genetically, we have not done this to ourselves. Why? Finally, Mendieta deals with the political and ethical implications suggested by this question before ending on an autobiographical note about growing up around so-called animals, and in particular horses.

Author : William WOOD (F.R.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024243844

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Zoography; or the Beauties of Nature displayed. In select descriptions from the animal and vegetable, with additions from the mineral kingdom ... Illustrated with plates designed and engraved by Mr. William Daniell by William WOOD (F.R.S.) Pdf

Author : Scott Slovic,Swarnalatha Rangarajan,Vidya Sarveswaran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350197312

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities by Scott Slovic,Swarnalatha Rangarajan,Vidya Sarveswaran Pdf

Bringing together two parallel and occasionally intersecting disciplines - the environmental and medical humanities - this field-defining handbook reveals our ecological predicament to be a simultaneous threat to human health. The book: · Represents the first collection to bring the environmental humanities and medical humanities into conversation in a systematic way · Features contributions from a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives including literary studies, environmental ethics and philosophy, cultural history and sociology · Adopts a truly global approach, examining contexts including, but not limited to, North America, the UK, Africa, Latin America, South Asia, Turkey and East Asia · Touches on issues and approaches such as narrative medicine, ecoprecarity, toxicity, mental health, and contaminated environments. Showcasing and surveying a rich spectrum of issues and methodologies, this book looks not only at where research currently is at the intersection of these two important fields, but also at where it is going.

Author : Matthew Eaton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000834260

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Incarnate Earth by Matthew Eaton Pdf

Incarnate Earth reimagines the doctrine of Incarnation by extending the unity between Creator and creation beyond Jesus to the entire world. In dialogue with contemporary theologies of deep incarnation and the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, the author argues that the face of Christ is encountered in the cruciform demand for justice embodied in the creaturely finitude and vulnerability that grounds ethics. Central to this vision is a recognition that the religious role-functions at the heart of Jesus’ life—the revelation of God and the redemption of the world—are performed throughout the physical world, irreducible to humanity or one heroic representative of the species. Thus, the human encounters the divine Christ in and as the face of any vulnerable thing—animal, vegetal, elemental, or otherwise—not as a transcendent being mediated through humanity. The radical nature of this reimagination necessitates renewed discussions of ecological and animal ethics, calling for compassionate care for all vulnerable bodies insofar as this is possible. It will be of interest to scholars of Christian theology and the philosophy of religion, particularly those focused on ecotheology, religious naturalism, and environmental ethics.

Author : Derek Ryan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748676453

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Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory by Derek Ryan Pdf

Derek Ryan demonstrates how materiality is theorised in Woolf's writings by focusing on the connections she makes between culture and nature, embodiment and environment, human and nonhuman, life and matter.

Author : Scott M. DeVries
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004316591

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Creature Discomfort by Scott M. DeVries Pdf

Creature Discomfort innovates the notion of “fauna-criticism” to reframe the literary history of and expound animal ethical positions from Spanish American nineteenth century, modernista, Regional, indigenista, and contemporary fiction and poetry.

Author : Linda Kalof,Georgina M. Montgomery
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781609172343

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Making Animal Meaning by Linda Kalof,Georgina M. Montgomery Pdf

An elucidating collection of ten original essays, Making Animal Meaning reconceptualizes methods for researching animal histories and rethinks the contingency of the human-animal relationship. The vibrant and diverse field of animal studies is detailed in these interdisciplinary discussions, which include voices from a broad range of scholars and have an extensive chronological and geographical reach. These exciting discourses capture the most compelling theoretical underpinnings of animal significance while exploring meaning-making through the study of specific spaces, species, and human-animal relations. A deeply thoughtful collection — vital to understanding central questions of agency, kinship, and animal consumption — these essays tackle the history and philosophy of constructing animal meaning.

Author : Nam H Nguyen
Publisher : Nam H Nguyen
Page : 4452 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Essential 120000 English-Uzbek Words Dictionary by Nam H Nguyen Pdf

The entire dictionary is an alphabetical list of English words and their French equivalent translations. It will be very useful for everyone (home, school, students, travel, interpreting and learning French or English). Butun lug'at ingliz tilidagi so'zlarning alifbo tartibidagi ro'yxati va ularning frantsuz tilidagi tarjimalari. Bu har bir kishi uchun foydali bo'ladi (uy, maktab, talabalar, sayohat, tarjima qilish va frantsuz yoki ingliz tilini o'rganish).

Author : Nam H Nguyen
Publisher : Nam H Nguyen
Page : 4521 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Essential 120000 English-Telugu Words Dictionary by Nam H Nguyen Pdf

The entire dictionary is an alphabetical list of English words and their French equivalent translations. It will be very useful for everyone (home, school, students, travel, interpreting and learning French or English). మొత్తం నిఘంటువు ఆంగ్ల పదాల యొక్క అక్షర జాబితా మరియు వారి ఫ్రెంచ్ సమానమైన అనువాదాలు. ఇది అందరికీ చాలా ఉపయోగకరంగా ఉంటుంది (హోమ్, పాఠశాల, విద్యార్థులు, ప్రయాణం, అనువాదం లేదా ఫ్రెంచ్ లేదా ఆంగ్లం నేర్చుకోవడం).